. The Street railway journal . mation of the arch. The roof is sup-ported on a steel truss, and is provided with ample skylightfacilities. The height of the car house inside from thefloor to the top of the division walls is 24 ft. At eachgirder of the pit construction, cross bracing is installed totie the adjacent pit walls together. The car house planswere drawn by R. H. Hunt, architect, of Chattanooga. The cost of the shops, equipped complete, was about$175,000. A cross section is reproduced on page 634. Thereare six large work rooms and storage quarters for bothheavv and light material. The
. The Street railway journal . mation of the arch. The roof is sup-ported on a steel truss, and is provided with ample skylightfacilities. The height of the car house inside from thefloor to the top of the division walls is 24 ft. At eachgirder of the pit construction, cross bracing is installed totie the adjacent pit walls together. The car house planswere drawn by R. H. Hunt, architect, of Chattanooga. The cost of the shops, equipped complete, was about$175,000. A cross section is reproduced on page 634. Thereare six large work rooms and storage quarters for bothheavv and light material. The paint shop, carpenter shop,general repair, machine and blacksmith shops are all locatedon the street level, but on account of the limited groundspace in the heart of the city the heaviest wood workingmachinery is located in a commodious basement 10 ft. high,the tools being mainly beneath the carpenter shop. Thetotal length of the shop is 200 ft. and the width on MarketStreet is no ft. Five tracks are provided in the shop, one. CAR HOUSE AND OFFICE BUILDING, CHATTANOOG.^ general, the pit tracks are spaced 12 ft. apart on centers,but the tracks in the washing bay are 16 ft. apart. Thefloor of the washing section is drained to 22 catch basins,which are spaced in rows 24 ft. to 30 ft. apart and indi-vidually from 6 to 8 ft. apart in the standard pit sections;each pit is drained by four catch basins. The total capa-city of the car house is about 100 cars. The offices of the general manager, superintendent,auditor and clerical staff are all located in the two-storybrick portion of tlie building fronting on Third location of the offices midway between the car houseand the shops enables the work of all departments to besupervised with the greatest convenience, and minimumlost time in reaching difTerent points in the property arereduced to a minimum. All the executive offices are locatedon the street level to give the maximum accessibility. Themanagers and superintendents o
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